Torment: Tides of Numenera is a Strange RPG Coming to PS4

I don’t know about you, but we here at inXile like our RPGs a bit strange.

We want to solve bizarre mysteries, argue with memorable lunatics, and get killed by dangerous artifacts when we press the wrong button. That’s why we’ve been having so much fun making Torment: Tides of Numenera — the entire world is a soaring swan dive into a bottomless lake of delightful weirdness and we’re immensely excited that the game will be coming to PS4.

Torment is set a billion years in the future in a place called the Ninth World. That name isn’t just for show: the people in this world built their cities over the bones and ruins of eight ancient fallen civilizations before them. And the technology of those previous civilizations is lying everywhere, waiting to be discovered and exploited.

Torment: Tides of Numenera is the spiritual successor to the classic PC RPG Planescape: Torment. Based on Monte Cook’s Numenera tabletop game and developed by members of the original Planescape team, Torment: Tides of Numenera tells the story of the near-immortal Changing God, an unstoppable creature called the Sorrow, and… you.

You are the Last Castoff, the last child of the Changing God, and you’re born falling from space. Things don’t get easier for you from there. You’re being hunted for reasons you barely understand, and searching for your place in this world. You’ll talk to ancient machine intelligences and friendly cannibal cultists. You’ll play with impossible, incomprehensible artifacts, and you’ll die. A lot.

But that’s okay, because death is rarely permanent in Torment: Tides of Numenera, and failure is sometimes more interesting than success. More often than not, screwing up doesn’t mean a reload because it reveals new paths that you wouldn’t have found otherwise. We set out to make a game you’d want to replay over and over, just to see all the different ways you can change this world.

Your character’s decisions will be fed into our morality system, which is deeper and subtler than “good” or “evil,” and reacts to the kind of person you’re roleplaying. You might become known as a scholar, a brute, a philanthropist, or a passionate justice-seeker, just to name a few. Each choice you make shapes your legacy and the Ninth World itself.

So, if you like intense, reactive, story-driven RPGs full of gloriously weird things that can kill you, check out Torment: Tides of Numenera.

I’ve already redeemed my beta code on steam, where it crashed and didn’t save anything right after i finished the prologue fight, if there was a way to trade for ps4 download I would definitely be super interested since it seems I play on that the most anyway.

Please try to make this happen! I am also a Kickstarter backer but need to look at a new PC to be able to play. Being able to get a PS4 code would be much better for me. I know it was said it wasn’t possible for Wasteland 2 but it seems like it wouldn’t be too hard.

It would also help promote Torment on PS4 to get some avid Kickstarter backers downloading and talking about it day 1.

Outstanding! Sounds like there is a lot of replay-ability here. These RPGs have always been PC only so it’s great to see them come to the PS4 and it’s X86 architecture. Do you have any special plans for PS4 Pro? Thanks for your hard work!

Planescape torment and (and the first unreal tournament) is my 1999 game of the year and one of my favorite rpg, it has a really really great story. If the first toment is “what can change the nature of a man”, then what’s this game about?

Looks like my comment is waiting for moderation, so to sum up: the question behind this game is “What does one life matter.” In the course of the game, your decisions will determine how the people of this world remember you.

Planescape Torment is probably, from a story-telling perspective, the best RPG ever so being its spiritual successor gives you pretty big boots to fill. Glad to see a company willing to put in effort from a storyline POV rather than just pushing graphics. Will definitely be watching for this.

I am soooooooo excited that this game is coming to PS4. I was a pc gamer back in the day when the first game came out and it was amazing, but I don’t play games on pc anymore–I like to be lounging in a comfy chair playing on my big flat screen. Playing games on the pc is too much like being at work since I am on my laptop all day. So glad I will get to play this on a console. Can’t wait!

Thanks. Also one more question, are there any special edition for this game? I definitly buy steelcase edition and artbook that explain this game universe. I love reading the witcher 3 artbook (The World of the Witcher) since it’s explain the characters, the world and the places in the witcher universe.

Numenara is a new role playing world so if you wanted a book like world of Witcher I would recommend getting a source book which are for sale now. Not sure where but I’m sure the inXile site could probably tell you. I backed it on Kickstarter at the level that gets all the novellas and docs because it seems like a really interesting world.

YES! I am so pumped for this! I have finally been getting around to running through Wasteland 2 which is quickly rising to be one of my favorite games of all time. I hope that the original Wasteland would get remade in the Unity Engine as well but either way, I am really excited about this.

We’re excited about it too. We focused exclusively on developing a PC version – in fact, we didn’t even know we were developing for consoles until this year. Our publisher (Techland) made bringing the backer-funded PC version to consoles possible.

I’m really excited to see a game like this coming to PS4. I’ll definitely pick this up when it comes out. Although I never played Planescape: Torment back in the day, I’ve always been a big fan of Infinity Engine games like Baldur’s Gate and Icewind Dale. So I think I’ll really enjoy this title too.

Absolutely some of the best gaming news I’ve heard in a long while. I prefer gaming on PlayStation for modern games, as my laptop is really best for retro gaming. And that includes ‘Planescape’, which I still play. I was considering getting ‘Tides of Numenera’ even if it didn’t run ideally on my outdated laptop, but I’ll definitely get it on PS4 now. Day one, you can bet on it. I’d pay $60 if you asked it.